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Re: setting hardware clock from NIST



On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 20:20, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> John Hasler wrote:
> > The first place to look for time servers is your ISP.  ISPs often run
> > time service on their nameservers.  Try them.
> 
> I tried my ISP first.  When I sent tech support an email asking
> about the NTP servers, they sent me instructions on how to setup
> news access.  I had to explicitly spell network time protocol.
> Yup, they are very clueful.

Try this:
traceroute ntp.<yourisp>

I was pleasantly surprised to find that my ISP has one at ntp.cox.net.

P.S. - "mtr" is much better than traceroute.
$ apt-cache show mtr
Package: mtr
Priority: extra
Section: net
Installed-Size: 152
Maintainer: Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.54-1
Replaces: mtr-tiny
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), libgtk1.2 (>=
1.2.10-4), libncurses5 (>= 5.3.20021109-1), xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
Conflicts: suidmanager (<< 0.50), mtr-tiny
Filename: pool/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.54-1_i386.deb
Size: 42098
MD5sum: 76bf4c099a4fd45aaa27d13711ad1f41
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
 mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs
 in a single network diagnostic tool.
 .
 As mtr starts, it investigates the network connection between the host
 mtr runs on and a user-specified destination host.  After it
 determines the address of each network hop between the machines,
 it sends a sequence ICMP ECHO requests to each one to determine the
 quality of the link to each machine.  As it does this, it prints
 running statistics about each machine.



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Ron Johnson, Jr. ron.l.johnson@cox.net
Jefferson, LA USA

"Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little
temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor safety." or
something like that
Ben Franklin, maybe



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